Description: Rectangular block
(w:
1.15 x h:
0.29 x d:
0.56).
Text: Inscribed on one face from which a previous inscription has been erased.
Letters: Second-third century 0.015-0.02, lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega, rather roughly cut.
Date: Second to third centuries CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Byzantine Baths: found in 1928, re
used as the threshold of the door leading to the frigidarium.
Original location: Presumably the Shrine of the Dioscuri.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
M(arkos) Ioulios Kokkeianos (i.e. M(arcus) Julius Cocceianus) Pythagoras Plato set up the Dioscuri with the little temple, from his own resources.
Commentary
For the building, see Oliverio, Scavi, p. 30f. One of the accompanying statues was found, C.224.
Oliverio dated this text and C.224 in the third century, Traversari thought it possible to attribute both statues and inscriptions to the first half of the third century.
The dedicator is also named in C.224, cut on the base of a statue of one of the Dioscuri, and C.232, line 1 where he is probably described as ἱαριτεύων. The cognomina suggest philosophical interests in his family, cf. C.93, line 10.
Bibliography: Oliverio, 1930, 31, p. 210-211, and fig. 69, p. 209, whence Roussel, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1932, p. 211, SEG 9.121, PHI 323975; Traversari, 1959, 183; cf. Oliverio, 1931, 38; mentioned by Paribeni, 1959, on C.224; mentioned Kenrick, 2013, 199.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Stone in excavation (Department of Antiquities, E.978)
Fig. 2. Close-up (Department of Antiquities, E.978)